Welcome to Australia – Looking for Recipes
So the first day we arrive in Perth is a wash. We’re exhausted, jetlagged, stinky, and brain dead. We’ve been traveling for damn near 40 hours and the kids have held up well. Like always, I get the least sleep out of everyone but that’s OK. I’m used to that. We arrive just in time for dinner and are taken to a rental townhouse (very chic and modern) and left to our own devices with nothing but a refrigerator magnet, a semi-stocked fridge with stuff that we’re too tired to cook, a car (that we are told not to drive until tomorrow), and a phone. The magnet has the number of a local pizza place that delivers, but the Internet it down so we have to call a bunch of times to figure out the menu. A few hours and $50 later we have two pizzas, a liter of Pepsi, and head off to bed. We decide that the first order of business the next day will be to get some food and have a proper dinner.
The next morning I have enough wits to figure out the Internet, we actually find a menu for that pizza place in a drawer, and I whip up some eggs for breakfast. After figuring out the nearest grocery, we head out. I’ll address this more later, but let’s just say that driving on the opposite side of the road is like trying to sign your name with your off hand – you can do it but it ain’t pretty.
We get to the store and, like always, look for what’s freshest. We pick up some lunch meat for the kids, a few veggies and such and notice that chicken is on sale. Great – the kids love it and I can bake it. But wait, there’s shrimp for $15 a kilo (like $7 a pound) so let’s go with that. The rental house has a few pots so I can boil them. A bit of ketchup, some pasta with garlic butter for the kids and I’m done. When we get back to the rental I decide to roam around the backyard and low-and-behold find, tucked in the back, a small gas grill! Hurrah! Now it’s olive oil, garlic, balsamic, and some pilfered rosemary from a neighbor’s bush grilled shrimp!
And as I start to cook the first shrimp I realize – I’ve moved all the way to Australia and the first thing I do is throw a shrimp on the barbie. Australia, I apologize. Now, does anyone have a good recipe for a blooming onion?
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Yay! It’s good to hear you guys made it! I can’t wait to hear a podcast with everybody and to hear the Andrys weigh in on the butt paste topic.
I’m not sure if I mentioned before but my husband has been deployed for quite a while and looking forward to the next podcast has helped pass the weeks and months.